Adopt a Service Member

Here is how YOU can help a Service Member from Isanti County. Isanti County Beyond the Yellow Ribbon and local Military Support groups are collecting items to be sent overseas to the men and women in the military. The following partial list is a suggestion of items that are needed/wanted by service members: Magazines eg. (firearms, sports, activity), eye drops (Visine), contact friendly eye drops too, snacks, protein bars, trail mix, chapstick. Female service members especially like: Femine products, movies of any kind, craft kits, emery boards, coloring books with colored pencils (crayons melt). Males like: beef jerky, salsa & chips, good coffee, such as Caribou and Dunkin Doughnuts, dental floss/pics, toothpaste/toothbrushes. 

The United States Post Office has a program to mail these items overseas for $12.00. Please drop off the items to be sent overseas at the following locations: Veteran's Affairs Office in the Government Center 555 18th Ave SW Cambridge, or The Scotsman 234 S. Main St. Cambridge. If you wish to donate cash or the cost of postage, please include a check made out to The Scotsman.